103-year-old Holocaust survivor reclaims German citizenship

(JNS) — In recent years, the number of Jews in New York applying for German citizenship has nearly doubled, according to a Deutsche Welle report.

That includes Ruth Gruenthal, who fled Nazi persecution in her teens and rebuilt her life in the United States.

The 103-year-old told the German publication that U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection “evoked feelings that I thought I would never in my lifetime have to deal with again.”

The German consulate in New York City has recorded 666 restorations of naturalizations of Jews, whose citizenship the Nazis stripped, in 2026 and 1,771 such applica...